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Stocks End Mixed as Losses
Disappear in Final Minutes

NEW YORK -- Blue-chip stocks stormed back from steep losses to finish comfortably in positive territory Monday, but investors' flight to quality left small and technology-related stocks in the dust.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which at one point had lost 81.19 points, roared back in the last hour of the day to close 20.02 points higher, at 6955.48. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index rose 2.54, or 0.32%, to 795.71.